Programme Overview
Our Certificate in Payroll Leadership is a 10 month programme focused on building your practical, tactical skills and experience in payroll management, including employment law, policies and procedures, and strategic initiatives.
Over the course you can attend workshops, watch videos, read articles and complete online learning modules and assignments and get coaching and feedback from our team.
The programme also involves assessing your achievement level from the start to the finish.
Who should register?
You’ll benefit most from the Certificate in Payroll Leadership if you:
- Have been working in payroll for several years or have completed operational payroll training and are now either working towards leading the function or the payroll team or are in that role but without having done any leadership training before
- Are a payroll manager who wants to complete a qualification to check and build your payroll management and leadership skills
What will you finish with?
The Certificate in Payroll Leadership is different from tertiary study as we cover real life, rather than just covering theory. It’s full of practical suggestions and ideas to use. You’ll work through each module, with real case studies and assessments to test you are applying what we’ve covered. Once you’ve completed your final assessment you will be awarded your certificate.
Elephant Certificates are now recognised globally, in New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific Islands, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, the US and United Kingdom.
The programme investment is NZ$1,950 (this Certificate is currently only available in New Zealand).
You will need to complete the on-line application to register for the Certificate.
Core Modules
For the Certificate in Payroll Leadership, you must complete ten modules. Five of these are core modules which are compulsory and five can be chosen from our optional modules. If you have significant experience or training in areas covered by the core modules, you can swop out up to 3 of these for optional modules.
Payroll Legislation
Managing a payroll function means having a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of payroll related employment law. This module focuses on an overview of the legislation, but with a focus on company compliance for more complex issues.
Deductions, Overpayments and Final Pays
There are a number of deductions you may have to set up and make from employee’s pays. Again there are some complexities with getting these right!
Bonuses and Remuneration
As well as setting up employees when they start with their wages or salaries – Payroll are also involved when salary increases are enacted for individuals or through Collective Bargaining, and for paying bonuses and incentives.
Effective Payroll Processes
Whether you are a sole charge Payroll professional or part of a team, there are a number of tools and techniques you can use to make your payroll processing effective, and some legislation around these.
Allowances and Tax
There are a number of allowances that payroll may have to set up and pay to employees. You need to make sure you have set these up correctly and understand the tax issues, to mitigate any issues for your business.
Optional Modules
Three optional modules can be chosen from the choices below. If you have significant training or experience in any of the core modules, you can choose 2 further optional modules.
Business Acumen
It can be useful for a Payroll leader to understand the financial, commercial and legal aspects of company operations to gain credibility and respect with their senior leaders, and to be able to partner with them effectively. This is especially important if you are part of the finance team.
Offering Employment
In some payroll roles, you can be responsible for managing the operational processes around offering employment to candidates and then setting them up in the payroll system. This modules covers how to do that.
Leading Change
This module takes you through using specific change tools with a payroll system change case study so that you are fully prepared to drive change in your business. You’ll learn some different change tools and techniques and how to plan your change successfully during a case study of a new payroll system.
Strategic Workforce Planning
Payroll leader can have a unique view of an organisation’s work patterns and capabilities and can provide frameworks and strategies on workforce planning. This modules covers how to run strategic workforce planning.
Leading a Team
If you are a team leader or Payroll Manager with direct reports, this module covers how to set up team processes, develop team skills, deal with different personality styles and more…
Performance Coaching
While this may not be a normal responsibility of payroll, understanding and using the principles and models of performance coaching can be very valuable to use if you are developing your payroll team.
Engaging your Managers
Whether during a change project, rolling out a new initiative or making changes to your payroll system or processes – your communications can make or break your message getting through. This modules covers to engage your managers.
The programme investment is NZ$1,950 + GST.
Once you have purchased, we will liaise with you on your timetable and your optional modules. The Certificate is scheduled over 10 months however you can defer completion by a further 6 months due to work or other circumstances.
Please do let us know if you have any questions. Unfortunately we cannot issue refunds once you have started your study.
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Our team
During your study, the team at Elephant will present the webinars and learning material as well as mark your assignments and provide you with personalised feedback and coaching.
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